Fender Merle Haggard Guitar

Merle Haggard is an American country
music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and
songwriter. Along with
Buck Owens, Haggard and his band "The Strangers"
helped create the Bakersfield Sound, which is
characterized by the unique twang of Fender
Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies, and a rough
edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound
recordings of the same era.

By the 1970s, Haggard was aligned with the growing
outlaw country movement, and has continued to
release successful albums through the 1990s and into
the 2000s. His songs display unflinching personal
honesty about such universal themes as love, loss,
patriotism, regret and redemption.

Fender Merle Haggard
Signature Telecaster

From the
Fender Custom Shop,
the Fender Merle Haggard Signature Telecaster is a
modified Telecaster Thinline that pays tribute to
the original Stranger. This guitar features a
laminated figured maple top, a maple set-neck with
deep-carved heel, Ivoroid pickguard and binding,
gold hardware, abalone “Tuff-Dog Tele” headstock
inlay, Texas Special Telecaster pickups and custom
four-way switching.